Margaret Mellis

Margaret Mellis

British · 1914–2009 · Painter, Sculptor

Margaret Nairne Mellis was a Scottish artist, one of the early members and last survivors of the group of modernist artists that gathered in St Ives, in Cornwall, in the 1940s.… (Wikipedia)

11auction results2012–2026years recorded100%sold (11)$1.8kSign up free to seemedian price

Record prices

  1. Margaret Mellis, PLANT (GREY), 1960, oil on boardPLANT (GREY), 1960Lyon & Turnbull · £10,080≈ $13,229≈ €11,454Sign up to see
  2. Margaret Mellis, VIEW OF SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE - C.1948, oil on canvasVIEW OF SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE - C.1948Lyon & Turnbull · £8,125≈ $11,135≈ €9,191Sign up to see
  3. Margaret Mellis, HOUSE ON SAND, 1974-75, oil on canvas laid on boardHOUSE ON SANDLyon & Turnbull · £5,750≈ $7,183≈ €6,597Sign up to see

Margaret Mellis’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).

Margaret Nairne Mellis was a Scottish artist, one of the early members and last survivors of the group of modernist artists that gathered in St Ives, in Cornwall, in the 1940s. She and her first husband, Adrian Stokes, played an important role in the rise of St Ives as a magnet for artists. She later married Francis Davison, also an artist, and became a mentor to the young Damien Hirst.

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Born 1914Died 2009Occupation Painter, SculptorWikidata Q1989122 ↗ULAN 500015038 ↗

Also known as Margaret Nairne, Margaret Nairne Mellis

Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By). See data sources & attribution.

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